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Autism is a highly heritable complex neurodevelopmental disorder, therefore identifying its genetic basis has been challenging. To date, numerous susceptibility genes and chromosomal abnormalities have been reported in association with autism, but most discoveries either fail to be replicated or account for a small effect. Thus, in most cases the underlying causative genetic mechanisms are not fully understood. In the present work, the Autism Genetic Database (AGD) was developed as a literature-driven, web-based, and easy to access database designed with the aim of creating a comprehensive repository for all the currently reported genes and genomic copy number variations (CNVs) associated with autism in order to further facilitate the assessment of these autism susceptibility genetic factors.
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The Autism Genetic Database currently contains the full list of autism susceptibility genes as well as all Copy Number Variations (CNVs) found to have a relationship to autism. Additionally, all noncoding RNA molecules (snoRNA, miRNA, and piRNA) and chemically induced fragile sites are stored as well. This information is currently accessible via an in-house human genome browser focusing specifically on the chromosomal features associated with autism, and in a tabular format broken down by chromosome. Genome Browser:A genome browser that displays the genes, CNVs, ncRNAs and fragile sites in an easily accessible graphical visualization tool Tabular Data Display:A tabular data display that allows the user to observe the chromosomal spatial relationship between the genes, CNVs, ncRNAs and fragile sites. This also provides links to Entrez and pubmed for each gene, as well as miRBase for miRNAs, snoRNA-LBME-db for snoRNAs, and piRNABank for piRNAs.
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